Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12p-4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/getopt.1.gz', see attached '.diff'.

Hope this helps...

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ii  libuuid1                    1.37-2       universally unique id library
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ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-4    compression library - runtime

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--- -   2005-04-28 03:38:29.438100000 -0400
+++ /tmp/getopt1.gz.32328       2005-04-28 03:38:29.432587165 -0400
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 Allow long options to start with a single 
 .RB ` \- '.
 .IP "\-h, \-\-help"
-Output a small usage guide and exit succesfully. No other output is generated. 
+Output a small usage guide and exit successfully. No other output is 
generated. 
 .IP "\-l, \-\-longoptions longopts"
 The long (multi\-character) options to be recognized. 
 More than one option name
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
 .RB ` \-\- ' 
 and error status 0.
 .IP "\-V, \-\-version"
-Output version information and exit succesfully. No other output is generated. 
+Output version information and exit successfully. No other output is 
generated. 
 .SH PARSING
 This section specifies the format of the second part of the parameters of
 .B getopt
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
 but no second parameter will be generated in unquoted (compatible) mode.
 Note that many other 
 .BR getopt (1) 
-implemetations do not support optional arguments.
+implementations do not support optional arguments.
 
 If several short options were specified after a single 
 .RB ` \- ', 
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@
 
 If the first character is a
 .RB ` \- ',
-non\-option parameters are outputed at the place where they are found; in 
normal
+non\-option parameters are outputted at the place where they are found; in 
normal
 operation, they are all collected at the end of output after a 
 .RB ` \-\- ' 
 parameter has been generated. Note that this
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
 .RB ` \- ', 
 getopt goes into compatibility mode. It will interpret its first parameter as
 the string of short options, and all other arguments will be parsed. It
-will still do parameter shuffling (ie. all non\-option parameters are outputed
+will still do parameter shuffling (ie. all non\-option parameters are outputted
 at the end), unless the environment variable 
 .B POSIXLY_CORRECT 
 is set.
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@
 treats optional arguments that are empty as if they were not present.
 
 The syntax if you do not want any short option variables at all is
-not very intuitive (you have to set them explicitely to the empty
+not very intuitive (you have to set them explicitly to the empty
 string).
 
 .SH AUTHOR

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